Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)

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"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)"
Akina Nakamori - Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping).jpg
Single by Akina Nakamori
from the album Fixer
B-side "Hirari (Sakura)"
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2016 (2016-02-24)
Recorded2015
Genre
Length5:00
Label Utahime Records
Universal J
Songwriter(s)
Akina Nakamori singles chronology
"Unfixable"
(2015)		"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)"
(2016)

"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" is the 51st single by Japanese singer Akina Nakamori. Written by Nakamori (under the pseudonym "Miran"), Dream Productions, and Brian Lee, the single was released on February 24, 2016, by Utahime Records and Universal Music Japan. This was Nakamori's second English-language single after "Unfixable". It was also the third single from her 24th studio album Fixer . [1] [2]

Contents

Background

"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" was used as the image song for the 2016 film While the Women Are Sleeping . The B-side is "Hirari (Sakura)", co-written by Haruichi Shindō. The CD is arranged in an unconventional way, with the B-side playing before the main track.

Chart performance

"Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" peaked at No. 32 on Oricon's weekly singles chart and sold over 4,300 copies. [3] [4]

Track listing

CD
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Hirari (Sakura)" ((ひらり -SAKURA-, "Lightly (Sakura)")) Haruichi Shindō Kōhei Munemoto
  • Munemoto
  • Takahiro "Johnny" Morita
4:25
2."Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)"
  • Miran
  • Dream Productions
  • Lee
  • Miran
  • Dream Productions
  • Lee
5:00
3."Hirari (Sakura)" (Instrumental)   4:25
4."Fixer (While the Women Are Sleeping)" (Instrumental)   5:00
Total length:18:50

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
Japan (Oricon) [3] 32
Japan (Billboard Top Singles Sales) [5] 26

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References

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  2. ↑ "中森明菜 / FIXER-WHILE THE WOMEN ARE SLEEPING-". CDJournal. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  3. 1 2 "unfixable(初回完全限定生産盤) | 中森明菜". Oricon . Retrieved 2022-08-27.
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